When it really happens: SHTF...

[Aragorn243]

The news coming out of the US tonight, that individual states are competing (and bidding against each other) for ventilators and protective equipment is disturbing, massively driving up the price of this critical life saving equipment.

I wouldn't put too much stock into that article. It's Cuomo making the charge and he simply ignored this until it was too late. He's also demanding more than he needs at the expense of the other states. Between Cuomo and DeBlasio the mayor of NYC, they set themselves up for a perfect storm. They and their underlings were telling people to "go to the parade", "go to the theater", "if you're not sick, act as if it's normal, your New Yorkers after all". Cuomo is demanding 30,000 ventilators when the Federal reserves are 20,000. Trump has the auto makers ramping up production but it's going to take some time. He's also released an additional 4000 ventilators from the National stockpile. That's now 22% earmarked for a single state. Most other states didn't screw up so bad and the rate of infection is much slower. Even in California, the most populous state by far, they are no where close to the problems NY has right now. PA right next door is also at a fraction of NY. Cuomo screwed up big time and is now trying to divert blame and make a name for himself. There are hopes he will be the actual Democrat nominee for President when this is all said and done, because of his "great" leadership through all this. He is getting his face all over the TV, that's for sure. Sitting in front of a whole warehouse of masks and gowns and complaining he has none and holding up the distribution of those. Cuomo also had the opportunity to purchase 16,000 ventilators a few years ago specifically for a potential pandemic. He refused, the reasoning being there wouldn't be enough trained people to operate them. He has managed to procure 7000 now, not sure if the 4400 coming from the Feds is included in that number.